For the past six weeks my feet have been mostly planted in South Jersey, but each Tuesday night my friends and I travel to…
Last night it was just my 14-year-old steak-lovin’ son and I home for dinner, so I pulled a big steak out…
My former marriage counselor used to tell my ex and me that all sorts of problems arise when we think “I should” or “He should” or “We should.” “Should” is a often crazy, damaging concept. It suggests that the present circumstances are either right or…
As an independent journalist, I make my living from writing about a variety of topics, but I want to let you in a something I haven’t announced too loudly yet. I have a five year plan that focuses on wine…
Each Tuesday night at 9pm ET for four weeks last November, I would pop open a…
I believed when the time was right to say something about this publicly, I would somehow know it, feel it. When I saw this month’s topic was Solitude for the Monthly Wine Writing Challenge from The Drunken Cyclist, I realized the time was right. This is my first…
I now have my own wine blog and writer’s website, wineandwonder.com. If you found your way here through an old business card or just stumbled upon this Medium blog, please head over there where I’ll continue to take a look at wine from all angles.
I went to a Greek restaurant for brunch recently, and the menu gave a choice of three $5 drinks: bloody Mary, mimosa and Champagne.
I write about wine, but I’m not a wine critic. When someone introduces me as a wine critic, or maybe a wine reviewer, I choose to correct the misconception. I have it down to two quick sentences.
